Considering how much his trial cost him and he had to sell Neverland because of the debt, yes I can see why he paid the millions out instead of going through more trials and high paid lawyers.. Do you think anybody would have wanted to go through repeated trials that would have cost more money in the long run? I know if I had that kind of money I wouldn't have gone through it. He basically paid those people off and as far as I know didn't have anything to do with kids again, except for his own. No matter what the media said, or the people who KNEW they were going to get the money out of him because the time was right, it doesn't mean he was guilty. And so far I've never seen anybody come out with outright proof of his guilt. So no matter how you feel about him or how weird he is, his presumed guilt is still assumption, not fact.